At The Age Of 5 Years Old, She’s The World’s Youngest Mother

What were you doing at 5-years-old? Probably playing with toy trains or beautifying your barbie dolls. One thing is for sure: you definitely weren’t carrying your first child to term. As unbelievable as it sounds, cases of precocious puberty have been recorded the world over. Girls as young as 5 have shown the sexual maturity to not only get pregnant, but actually give birth. The circumstances of these biological miracles are often concealed in mystery, but many premature mothers are able to deliver healthy babies, and continue on living productive lives themselves! Here’s what you should know about the case of the world’s youngest mothers.

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The youngest mother ever. When Lina Medina was lead into a hospital in Pisco, Peru, doctors assumed that her bulging stomach was an abdominal tumor. After further inspection, doctor Geraldo Lozada concluded that the 5-year-old girl was eight months pregnant, and the world’s youngest mother at that. A month and a half later, Medina gave birth via C-section to a healthy boy.

Early advances. Medina was born in 1933, and underwent puberty at an abnormally young age. By the time she was eight months old, she had already had her first menstrual cycle. She had developed breasts by 4-years-old, and by the time she was 5, her pelvis had widened and her bones had matured considerably.

Family dynamics. Medina’s son weighed a healthy six pounds at birth. He was raised to believe that Medina was his sister, but learned the truth of their relationship when he was 10-years old. He lived a healthy life until his death at the age of 40 due to bone marrow disease. Medina never revealed who the father of her child was.